Occasionally our intelligence agencies do their jobs.
(This is important because the intelligence agencies were more correct on the Iraq situation than the Cheney/Rumsfeld homebrew intelligence group established at the Pentagon to spin the intelligence as they saw fit).
This exists/existed. That is exactly what the Iopener was. I got one for grandma. She loves it to this day.(She is 86). The next best thing that I have seen is OEOne, which is a desktop created based on Mozilla components and runs on top of Linux.
Good. Send us your address and we'll ship the waste right over. Your assessment of nuclear power is the same as oil companies analysis of fossil fuels. We'll just not count the yucky stuff and we'll pretend it doesn't cost anything. For most power companies it doesn't anything. When its time to decommission, a subsidiary suddenly appears that owns the reactor and then it conveniently goes bankrupt sticking the taxpayers with the cost of protecting the radioactive sludge. Forgot about that part, Mr Green?
"The advantage of CMOS sensors is that it can produce a larger sensor with fewer defects. "
- actually no. In general CCDs can be a simpler technology using fewer mask levels. The manufacturing benefit of CMOS was supposed to be because you could make them using a standard CMOS process and gain economy of scale. This is not currently entirely true. A custom CMOS sensor is required for good performing CMOS sensors.
"You can also pack the sensors more densly, though there is more "gap" between the individual sensors..." - not currently and maybe never. Consumer CCDs are 3.3 micron squre pixels, CMOS struggles to get belo 5 micron using 0.18 micron design rules.
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The first paragraph on the software and microlenses was right on!
You're absolutely wrong. CCDs are still the superior technology. Even though it is fairly mature, it continues to improve. The software processing of CCDs is used to interpolate the color filter matrix, which must be done for CMOS also. CMOS suffers from nonoptimal depletion depths in the silicon for a good optical sensor, really crappy topography, high dark current (noise floor) and absolutely requires microlenses which are a disadvantage in many high performance applications.
Many system integrators have evaluated the Foveon CMOS sensor and they are all still using CCDs. Dynamic range is as important as resolution in producing film like qually. CMOS sensors are still too noisy in general to be used in systems that are expected to make very good images. Although many of the leaders are actively developing the technology, especially Canon.
"Why the hell should I donate two days a week of work so people in these rural areas, whose cost of living is a tiny fraction of mine, can afford these luxuries?"
Because you are our love slaves.
Seriously I live about 30 miles outside a major city and my costs of living are significantly higher than living 10 miles closer in a suburb. Mostly because of high taxes due to few people and fixed costs. But it is a choice and I am gladly paying it. I agree cable is a luxury and this is stupid. However, I think taxation is a good thing in general. It helps "redistribute the wealth " (those dirty words), which actually is required to maintain healthy captialism. or so I have concluded after years of careful analysis.
"... Customers come from people that are pleased with what you provide. If you don't please people with what you provide, you don't get customers, and you don't make a profit. If you don't make a profit, you go out of business, and someone else takes your place... "
Exactly. So why are the big few media companies grovelling to the gov't to change the rules? Because they provide crap and expect people to be happy with that. Instead people turn off the radio/TV (or don't buy the brain dead newspaper unless they have a bird that needs a cage change). Then the big corp. cries that they can't be competitive without inhaling whatever small stations are giving them competition.
The people own the air waves in the U.S. and the media is supposed to serve our needs, not the other way around. Or they have the option of not providing the service and they can go out of business. I guess that's the capitalist way - I just looked it up in my copy of "Selfish Greed 101".
Isn't the ultimate conclusion that intellectual property supports terrorism? Legalize drugs and there won't be any drug dealers. Make Microsoft (who would name themselves that?) illegal and piracy disappears. End of problem.
"The dubmest farmers harvest the biggest potatoes"
Whay are you looking at my potato?
Even if I have the biggest potato, what is dubmest? Some type of goo left over from a rave?
(P.S. I have visited Germany and it rocks. Very beautiful and historical.)
Wow - you get to use Linux at work? Lucky you!
(Seriously)
I used Redhat a couple years ago and switched to SUSE because I can get everything and the kitchen sink on the CDs/DVD. I live behaind a modem and this is really important to me. $40 a year to upgarde is no big deal.
Also - only Redhat could figure out how to get xfig to NOT save drawings as eps.(LaTeX rules!)
On the principle that I prefer to support smaller, local places. I prefer more variety, better food, usually at a better price, and the extra bonus that I get to be surprised when checking out a place I haven't been before.
Of course some people prefer to do the same thing every day no matter where they are and to stuff the same old glop down their throats.
(You're probably right about the salads. I haven't been forced to find out yet)
I don't patronize McDonald's on principle even if the food is crap. Will all the./'s be able to to use it after they finish their shifts? or will they be too tired from repeating "would you like fries with that?" all day?
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so we're not going to tell you where it is!
Occasionally our intelligence agencies do their jobs.
(This is important because the intelligence agencies were more correct on the Iraq situation than the Cheney/Rumsfeld homebrew intelligence group established at the Pentagon to spin the intelligence as they saw fit).
Oh - and SafLiar is an idiot.
This exists/existed. That is exactly what the Iopener was. I got one for grandma. She loves it to this day.(She is 86). The next best thing that I have seen is OEOne, which is a desktop created based on Mozilla components and runs on top of Linux.
Good. Send us your address and we'll ship the waste right over. Your assessment of nuclear power is the same as oil companies analysis of fossil fuels. We'll just not count the yucky stuff and we'll pretend it doesn't cost anything. For most power companies it doesn't anything. When its time to decommission, a subsidiary suddenly appears that owns the reactor and then it conveniently goes bankrupt sticking the taxpayers with the cost of protecting the radioactive sludge. Forgot about that part, Mr Green?
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"... more time amending its briefs".
How long does this take? I amended my briefs in about 5 muuntes thios morning.
"The advantage of CMOS sensors is that it can produce a larger sensor with fewer defects. " - actually no. In general CCDs can be a simpler technology using fewer mask levels. The manufacturing benefit of CMOS was supposed to be because you could make them using a standard CMOS process and gain economy of scale. This is not currently entirely true. A custom CMOS sensor is required for good performing CMOS sensors. "You can also pack the sensors more densly, though there is more "gap" between the individual sensors ..." - not currently and maybe never. Consumer CCDs are 3.3 micron squre pixels, CMOS struggles to get belo 5 micron using 0.18 micron design rules.
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The first paragraph on the software and microlenses was right on!
You're absolutely wrong. CCDs are still the superior technology. Even though it is fairly mature, it continues to improve. The software processing of CCDs is used to interpolate the color filter matrix, which must be done for CMOS also. CMOS suffers from nonoptimal depletion depths in the silicon for a good optical sensor, really crappy topography, high dark current (noise floor) and absolutely requires microlenses which are a disadvantage in many high performance applications.
Many system integrators have evaluated the Foveon CMOS sensor and they are all still using CCDs. Dynamic range is as important as resolution in producing film like qually. CMOS sensors are still too noisy in general to be used in systems that are expected to make very good images. Although many of the leaders are actively developing the technology, especially Canon.
pretty cool.My calendar is reporting that today is August 13, 2003. or maybe that was your point and I'm an idiot.
"Why the hell should I donate two days a week of work so people in these rural areas, whose cost of living is a tiny fraction of mine, can afford these luxuries?"
Because you are our love slaves.
Seriously I live about 30 miles outside a major city and my costs of living are significantly higher than living 10 miles closer in a suburb. Mostly because of high taxes due to few people and fixed costs. But it is a choice and I am gladly paying it. I agree cable is a luxury and this is stupid. However, I think taxation is a good thing in general. It helps "redistribute the wealth " (those dirty words), which actually is required to maintain healthy captialism. or so I have concluded after years of careful analysis.
"... Customers come from people that are pleased with what you provide. If you don't please people with what you provide, you don't get customers, and you don't make a profit. If you don't make a profit, you go out of business, and someone else takes your place... "
Exactly. So why are the big few media companies grovelling to the gov't to change the rules? Because they provide crap and expect people to be happy with that. Instead people turn off the radio/TV (or don't buy the brain dead newspaper unless they have a bird that needs a cage change). Then the big corp. cries that they can't be competitive without inhaling whatever small stations are giving them competition.
The people own the air waves in the U.S. and the media is supposed to serve our needs, not the other way around. Or they have the option of not providing the service and they can go out of business. I guess that's the capitalist way - I just looked it up in my copy of "Selfish Greed 101".
"But, hey, anything to insult MS, right?" ... Yup.
Isn't the ultimate conclusion that intellectual property supports terrorism? Legalize drugs and there won't be any drug dealers. Make Microsoft (who would name themselves that?) illegal and piracy disappears. End of problem.
Cool. Germans kill so good. I'm glad they're on our side.
"The dubmest farmers harvest the biggest potatoes" Whay are you looking at my potato? Even if I have the biggest potato, what is dubmest? Some type of goo left over from a rave? (P.S. I have visited Germany and it rocks. Very beautiful and historical.)
Wow - you get to use Linux at work? Lucky you! (Seriously) I used Redhat a couple years ago and switched to SUSE because I can get everything and the kitchen sink on the CDs/DVD. I live behaind a modem and this is really important to me. $40 a year to upgarde is no big deal. Also - only Redhat could figure out how to get xfig to NOT save drawings as eps.(LaTeX rules!)
That virus fly-paper has been around for 10 years? I didn't realize that it was available for BlowMe 3.1
On the principle that I prefer to support smaller, local places. I prefer more variety, better food, usually at a better price, and the extra bonus that I get to be surprised when checking out a place I haven't been before.
Of course some people prefer to do the same thing every day no matter where they are and to stuff the same old glop down their throats.
(You're probably right about the salads. I haven't been forced to find out yet)
I don't patronize McDonald's on principle even if the food is crap. Will all the ./'s be able to to use it after they finish their shifts? or will they be too tired from repeating "would you like fries with that?" all day?
If this affects US security, can John Ashcroft detain Bill Gates? Please? Does someone at the DOJ need their palm greased? I can pay many pennies!